The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology

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Biographies & Memoirs

WINCHESTER, Simon

Professionals & Academics

Perennial

Charting the Atlantic's key role in human development, this tour de force of narrative history tells the story of the great ocean, from its birth far back in geological time to its extinction in the distant future.

Atlantic: A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories

History

Harper

HarperCollins, Publishers

History of the men that shaped the country

The Men Who United the States

For more than two centuries, 'e pluribus unum' - out of many, one - has been featured on america's official government seals and stamped on its currency. But how did america become 'one nation, indivisible'? what unified a growing number of disparate states into the modern country we recognise today? in this monumental history, simon winchester addresses these questions, bringing together the breath-taking achievements that helped forge and unify america and the pioneers who have toiled fearlessly to discover, connect, and bond the citizens and geography of the usa from its beginnings. Winchester follows in the footsteps of america's most essential explorers, thinkers, and innovators, including lewis and clark and their corps of discovery expedition to the pacific coast, the builders of the first transcontinental telegraph, and the powerful civil engineer behind the interstate highway system. He treks vast swaths of territory, from pittsburgh to portland; rochester to san francisco, truckee to laramie, seattle to anchorage, introducing these fascinating men and others - some familiar, some forgotten, some hardly known - who played a pivotal role in creating today's united states. Throughout, he ponders whether the historic work of uniting the states has succeeded, and to what degree. 'the men who united the states' is a fresh, lively, and erudite look at the way in which the most powerful nation on earth came together, from one of our most entertaining, probing, and insightful observers.

Americas

William Collins

Pacific

HARPER/COLLINS

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2018Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the pioneering engineers who developed precision machinery to allow us to see as far as the moon and as close as the Higgs boson.Precision is the key to everything. It is an integral, unchallenged and essential component of our modern social, mercantile, scientific, mechanical and intellectual landscapes. The items we value in our daily lives a camera, phone, computer, bicycle, car, a dishwasher perhaps all sport components that fit together with precision and operate with near perfection. We also assume that the more precise a device the better it is. And yet whilst we live lives peppered and larded with precision, we are not, when we come to think about it, entirely sure what precision is, or what it means. How and when did it begin to build the modern worldSimon Winchester seeks to answer these questions through stories of precisions pioneers. Exactly takes us back to the origins of the Industrial Age, to Britain where he introduces the scientific minds that helped usher in modern production: John Iron-Mad Wilkinson, Henry Maudslay, Joseph Bramah, Jesse Ramsden, and Joseph Whitworth. Thomas Jefferson exported their discoveries to the United States as manufacturing developed in the early twentieth century, with Britains Henry Royce developing the Rolls Royce and Henry Ford mass producing cars, Hattoris Seiko and Leica lenses, to todays cutting-edge developments from Europe, Asia and North America.As he introduces the minds and methods that have changed the modern world, Winchester explores fundamental questions

Exactly

Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World

From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it, stole it, cared for it, fought for it and gave it back. 
In 1889, thousands of hopeful people raced southward from the Kansas state line and westward from the Arkansas boundary to stake claims on the thousands of acres of unclaimed pastures and meadows. Across the twentieth century, water was dammed and drained in Holland so that a new province, Flevoland, rose up, unchartered and requiring new thinking. In 1850, California legislated the theft of land from Native Americans. An apology came in 2019 from the governor, but what of the call for reparations or return? What of government confiscation of land in India, or questions of fairness when it comes to New Zealand’s Maori population and the legacy of settlers? 
The ownership of land has always been complicated, opaque, and more than a little anarchic when viewed from the outside. In this book, Simon Winchester explores the the stewardship of land, the ways it is delineated and changes hands, the great disputes, and the questions of restoration – particularly in the light of climate change and colonialist reparation. 
A global study, this is an exquisite exploration of what the ownership of land might really mean – not in dry-as-dust legal terms, but for the people who live on it.

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The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology

Atlantic: A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories

Atlantic: A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories

The Men Who United the States

The Men Who United the States

Pacific

Pacific

Exactly

Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World

Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World